doomed

American  

[doomd] / dumd /

adjective

1. destined, or seemingly destined, especially to an adverse fate.

   Math wizards were able to pinpoint the final resting place of the doomed jet deep beneath the ocean.

2. judged guilty and sentenced, especially to death; condemned.

   Several times today and tonight the doomed man has wept like a child in his prison cell.

3. ordained or fixed, as a sentence or fate.

   In this age of finding everything online, it won’t be long before seed catalogs suffer the same doomed fate as most gardening magazines.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of doom.

Other Word Forms

• self-doomed adjective

Etymology

Origin of doomed

doom + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

"We are doomed to repeat failures of the past if we are not willing to remember them and learn from them," he wrote.

From Barron's

Guardiola, justifiably, will say City are still in the race but league form since the turn of the year says otherwise, with only one win from six games coming at home to doomed Wolverhampton Wanderers.

From BBC

“That was terrifying,” Swims said when he finished the song — an all-timer of a power ballad with a lengthy chain of custody going back through Carey, Harry Nilsson and the doomed Welsh band Badfinger.

From Los Angeles Times

“Now I think a lot of us feel doomed.”

From The Wall Street Journal

She isn’t a loser and she’s not doomed.

From Literature

Related Words

• ill-fated
• wrecked